What's new in ChordPulse 2.6
Sep 13, 2020
- Chord audition: listen to chords and root/bass notes while the music is not playing, choose chord/arpeggio mode and musical instrument
- Optionally display chord notes in chord selector
- "Split Keyboard" visualization mode and other improvements and options for musical note visualizer
- Arrangement point now indicates modifications made to drums / bass / chords sections
- New accompaniment styles: Pop: Fast Pop, Pop Pad; Rock: Steady Beat; Extra: Funk Base D, Heavy
- Improved and extended help file and in-program help
- Revised Options menu
- Adjustable bar number frequency
- Double click style / tempo / key to close selector
- Esc key closes style / tempo / key / chord / arrangement point / page selector; Esc to quit program is now optional
- More detailed and less redundant chord / arrangement point editing history (undo/redo information)
- Several minor improvements and optimizations
- Bug fixes
New in ChordPulse 2.5 (Sep 7, 2017)
- 34 new music styles added:
- Pop category: A New Start, Piano Energy, Toms, Toms B, Toms C
- Rock category: Dirty Shuffle, Ground State, Quarter Rock, Rock Run, Tom's Rock
- Jazz+Blues category: Jazz Latin Fusion, Jazz Pop Fusion
- Synth category: Electroblade, Electroplast, Fluid Dynamics, Rain, Shield, Submerge, The Flight
- World category: Cha Cha, Montuno, Montuno B, Montuno C
- Extra category: Baroque Peace B, Distant, Funk Base B, Funk Base C, Low, My Meadow,
- Percussive, Percussive B, Percussive C, Sharp Ballad, Tireless Marimba
- "Preset Chord Progressions" window: hotkey [O] added, last selected item is remembered, new presets added
- New sample sessions added
- Extended in-application and html help
- Minor improvements, optimizations, and fixes
New in ChordPulse 2.4 (Nov 9, 2015)
- Chord types added: 5, 6sus, 7b5, 7b9, 7#9, 7alt, 7sus, mM7, 9, m9, M9, 9sus, 9b5, 9#5, 69, m69, m11, 13, m13, M13
- New chord selectors: standard (17 chord types) and extended (36 chord types)
- Chord voicing options: rootless voicing, open harmony
- Chord notation options, chord qualities are now in subscript
- New style selector with categories, sorting options, tempo and time signature information
- 11 new music styles in "Jazz+Blues" category, one new style in "Synth" category
- Improved Swing and Jazz Ballad styles
- Some jazz/blues preset chord progressions added/renamed
- New sample sessions: Blues, Jazz Loop, Minor Blues, Rock Base, Vintage Jazz; in folder "Samples/More": Even Jazz, Minor Blues 2, Unwind
- Music styles renamed: Slow 9/8 -> Slow Rock 9/8, Tsamikos 3/4 -> Tsamikos, Easy Swing -> Tale Swing, Soft Swing -> Swing - Pad, Soft Swing 3/4 -> Swing - Pad 3/4
- Additional minor improvements, changes, and fixes
New in ChordPulse 2.3 (Nov 9, 2015)
- 30 new music styles added
- Improved Windows 8 compatibility
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
New in ChordPulse 2.2 (Jul 28, 2012)
- ChordPulse is digitally signed by Symantec Norton / VeriSign
- support for transposing instruments + first-time hint about where to find Visual Transpose
- new MIDI export window, silence and precount options
- startup warning for master tune & visual transpose
- modified Options menu
- improved visibility of (adjacent active) piano keys, C4 mark on wide piano keyboard
- small cosmetic changes
- sound blaster precount problem fixed
New in ChordPulse 2.1 (Sep 16, 2011)
- 10 new music styles
- improved editing of arrangement points, redesigned editor, arrangement & cymbal can be defined independently
- new visualization modes: "Note grid" and "Chord+bass notes" (click on piano keyboard to change mode)
- play music from any beat
- chord inversion is shown in chord editor
- preset chord progressions: several new presets, "Add" mode
- visual customization options: wide/white model, 10 text colors, 4 chord coloring modes, 4 chord look modes
- various cosmetic changes: metal play button, somewhat wider window, desaturated text and chord colors
- new options: leave style/tempo/key selector open, flat notes by default in new sessions
- non-modal "Session Notes" window
- "Key shift" changed to "Key" on main display, sharp/flat notes shown on main display
- bug fixes
New in ChordPulse 2.0 (May 19, 2011)
- arrangement points (song breaks/endings + simple arrangement options)
- Repeat All/Page/Off modes and an independent custom loop region
- fade out
- detailed session mixer
- define a custom mix for each music style
- accompaniment dialog with auto cymbal options
- master tune sensor in main window
- cut/copy/paste controls in page selector
- 8 new music styles
- 45 new sample sessions (including 15 technical)
- hot key changes: Repeat mode (R), Activate loop (L), Clear loop (C), Reference tones (T), Mute (U)
- 'Lock volume levels' when changing styles is now default
- minor cosmetic changes
New in ChordPulse 1.5 (Nov 5, 2010)
New in ChordPulse 1.4 (Aug 5, 2010)
- new chord types: augmented/half-diminished/diminished seventh and major / minor / suspended second chords
- save your music as standard MIDI files (format 0 or 1)
- minor cosmetic changes
- fixed: 'Insert' command ignored maximum page size of 16 bars
New in ChordPulse 1.3 (Jul 8, 2010)
- master tune: tune ChordPulse to your instrument by adjusting the frequency of A440
- export chord progressions to text files
- session links: store up to 5 links to files or web pages in your ChordPulse session for easy access
- new music styles: Fast Beat, Fast Shuffle, Mystic Ballad
- minor cosmetic changes
New in ChordPulse 1.2 (Jul 8, 2010)
- 11 new music styles,
- 3/4 time signature
New in ChordPulse 1.1 (Jul 8, 2010)